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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geniuses & Gadflies. Crusade in Europe should also be close to the final word on the Montgomery and Patton controversies, if not on the Battle of the Bulge. Patiently and logically, in terms of command and the necessities of logistics, Ike knocks down Monty's argument in favor of a single ground commander in Europe (Monty wanted the job) and a single punch against the Ruhr and Berlin (again by Monty) instead of a broad crossing of the Rhine. The same logic and logistics dispose of Patton's claim that, given the men & supplies he needed, he could have...
...geniuses-Patton as well as Montgomery . . . [not] an entirely unalloyed blessing." Ike leaves no doubt that he valued them both. He also leaves no doubt that they could, each in his own way, be irritating. Each time Patton made a boner, Blood-and-Guts would come to Ike close to tears, and promise not to do it again. Writes Eisenhower: "His emotional range was very great and he lived at either one end or the other...
Members of the Key Society have been assigned to each team, sticking close by and lending aid. While the Key has in the past helped with hotel reservations for the squads, it has not had to do so this week...
Dunster's football team came close yesterday, but couldn't quite make the boat, as Calhoun College squeaked through with a 7-6 win in one of the closest House games of the afternoon...
Harvard beat Columbia which last Yale. Harvard came close to Dartmouth which trounced Yale, Princeton licked Harvard and then had to fight to edge Yale...